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Brexit dividend: Third of UK citizenship applications now from EU nationals
The Home Office said the increase is reflects more people seeking to confirm their status in the UK after Brexit.
Sadiq Khan sets out plan to rehouse Afghan refugees in London
Khan will expand his new Right to Buy-back fund to help councils purchase homes which could be used to resettle families.
British student: ‘I got married in Kabul. The next week, the Taliban arrived’
Abdul married his Afghan wife Fatima just days before the country fell.
Rugby-mad ‘Yorkshire lad’ deported to Zimbabwe – where he left aged 9
Bruce Mpofu, 29, was deported to Zimbabwe on a Home Office charter flight on Wednesday night.
Pen Farthing stuck outside Kabul airport with 173 cats and dogs
Farthing begged the Taliban to let him board a private charter flight to Britain.
UK care home provider to train and employ 500 Afghan refugees
Cera said it will work with the government's resettlement programme over the next five years.
We could discover life on new planets within two years, scientists say
Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets - and believe it may spot signs of life on them.
‘Highly lethal’ terror attack on Kabul Airport could come within hours
“The opportunism of wanting to target a major international humanitarian mission is just utterly deplorable but sadly true to form for an organisation as barbarous as Daesh.”
‘I fear for their lives’: Brit begs for help as mother and sister stranded in Kabul
The 24-year-old said he was about to refuse his evacuation flight, but his mother persuaded him to leave with his pregnant wife.